Backing up Your Cisco Router can be Easy if done Right

Step 1 – Setup an ftp server with a user and password for
your cisco to use for the backup.

While this step is beyond the scope of this article, this is obviously a prerequisite for the rest of the steps.

Step 2 – Backup your Running Config:

#copy run flash
Destination filename [running-config]?
%Warning:There is a file already existing with this name
Do you want to over write? [confirm]
2078 bytes copied in 0.512 secs (4059 bytes/sec)

Step 3 – Find your IOS filename and Backup file:

#sh flash
-#- –length– —–date/time—— path
1 55364328 Aug 31 2011 13:39:36 +00:00
c1900-universalk9-mz.SPA.151-4.M1.bin
2 2078 Feb 12 2013 23:48:24 +00:00 running-config

Step 4 – FTP the Files to your FTP Server:

# copy flash:/c1900-universalk9-mz.SPA.151-4.M1.bin
ftp://user:password@ip.address.of.ftpserver
Address or name of remote host [ip.address.of.ftpserver]?
Destination filename [c1900-universalk9-mz.SPA.151-4.M1.bin]?
Writing c1900-universalk9-mz.SPA.151-4.M1.bin
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
55364328 bytes copied in 78.988 secs (700921 bytes/sec)

#copy flash:/running-config
ftp://user:password@ip.address.of.ftpserver
Address or name of remote host [ip.address.of.ftpserver]?
Destination filename [drrouter-confg]?
Writing drrouter-confg !
2078 bytes copied in 20.596 secs (101 bytes/sec)
201240576 bytes available (55369728 bytes used)

That’s it. Your backup is complete.

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Jeff has 20 years of professional IT experience, having done nearly everything in his roles of IT consultant, Systems Integrator, Systems Engineer, CNOC Engineer, Systems Administrator, Network Systems Administrator, and IT Director. If there is one thing he knows for sure, it is that there is always a simple answer to every IT problem and that downtime begins with complexity. Seasoned IT professional by day, Jeff hopes to help other IT professionals by blogging about his experiences at night on his blog: http://uptimemadeeasy.com. You can find Jeff on Google+ or LinkedIn at: LinkedIn or Twitter at: Twitter

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